trielemental

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

From tri- (three) +‎ elemental.

Adjective[edit]

trielemental (not comparable)

  1. Having three different elements (in various senses).
    • 1949, Collier's: Incorporating Features of the American Magazine, Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 16:
      The armed forces themselves were to be cartelized in Prussian-type "trielemental" groups—ground forces, air forces and naval forces.
    • 1996, Merrill B. Twining, No Bended Knee: The Battle for Guadalcanal, Random House, →ISBN, page 37:
      Seizure of these two places lay well within the capabilities of our available forces, and together they would provide a firm trielemental base for further operations by land, sea, and air forces in the direction of Rabaul, New Britain, the Japanese base dominating the entire area.
    • 2020, Zhaokui Jin, Danyang Chen, Penghe Zhao, Yanyuan Wen, Mingjian Fan, Gaoxin Zhou, Yingshuai Wang, Qianjun He, “Coordination-induced exfoliation to monolayer Bi-anchored MnB2 nanosheets for multimodal imaging-guided photothermal therapy of cancer”, in Theranostics, →DOI:
      Generally, MXenes were synthesized by the chemical etching method where chemical etching agents were used to etch off one of layers within ABC-type trielemental layered compounds.

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